A Developer’s Introduction
to Splunk Observability
Cloud
Greg Leffler - Director of Developer Evangelism
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Agenda
• Introductions
• Core Concepts
• What is Observability?
• What is OpenTelemetry?
• Demo
• Conclusion
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Introduction
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Core Concepts
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What is Observability?
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“Observability lets us understand a system
from the outside, by letting us ask
questions about that system without
knowing its inner workings and use the
resulting data to solve problems in
complex systems.”
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What is OpenTelemetry?
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Let’s Ask ChatGPT!
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Let’s Ask ChatGPT!
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Why OpenTelemetry?
• Flexible & Lightweight
Architecture
• Future-Proof
• Vendor agnostic
• Can use any observability
backend (even multiple ones)
• One-time instrumentation
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Signal Types Supported by OpenTelemetry
Metrics Logs Traces Baggage Profiling
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Monitor Metrics
(Detect) “What?”
Explore Traces & Events
(Troubleshoot) “Where?”
Logs
“Why?”
Discover
(Root Cause)
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From Zero to
O11y: Automatic
Discovery &
Config
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Use the Force Wizards!
• Provides steps for most popular
frameworks
• Option for enabling profiling and
auto instrumentation
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Install the Collector…
curl -sSL [Link]
[Link] > /tmp/[Link] && \
sudo sh /tmp/[Link] --realm <realm> --
mode agent -- <token>
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… Enable auto discovery & config…
curl -sSL [Link]
[Link] > /tmp/[Link] && \
sudo sh /tmp/[Link] --realm <realm> --
mode agent --discovery --with-instrumentation --
deployment-environment prod -- <token>
And add config info as necessary to /etc/otel/collector/config.d/[Link]
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… And Enable AlwaysOn Profiling
curl -sSL [Link]
[Link] > /tmp/[Link] && \
sudo sh /tmp/[Link] --realm <realm> --
mode agent --discovery --with-instrumentation --enable-
profiler --enable-profiler-memory --enable-metrics --
deployment-environment prod -- <token>
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Demo
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